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Spotted lanternfly goo is surprisingly tasty
Inside the cutthroat world of competitive meat judging
Death ‘by planet’ was surprisingly common in the 1600s
Imagine traveling to the moon only to realize you’re allergic to it. One astronaut did.
Bill Nye talks killer clowns, mermaids, pigeon poo, and deadly bicycles
How sexy Victorian mediums tricked scientists into believing in ectoplasm
What scientists learned when they tried to raise a chimp with a human baby
This dog was genetically engineered to be a kitchen appliance
Why were chainsaws invented? To help with childbirth.
The weirdest things we learned this week: Falcon sex hats and buying human skulls on Instagram
Some skyscrapers are so shiny they turn into death rays
How Abebe Bikila won the Olympic marathon without shoes
The weirdest things we learned this week: Giant sloths, caged babies, and spicy horse butts
Viagra could have been a groundbreaking cure for period cramps
The weirdest things we learned this week: smoke enemas, sneaky sound design, and stranded lighthouses
What’s stranger than bees telling time? How we learned that they can.
The weirdest things we learned this week: wild weather, Victorian cannibalism, and the female orgasm (as told by a 12th-century nun)
Why baseball players ‘bone’ their bats
The weirdest things we learned this week: doctors drinking pee and telephones made of cats
The historical significance of Harry Styles’ nipples, explained
Ancient athletes did something truly shocking with their genitals
Ben Franklin invented a mesmerizing instrument with a deadly reputation
There’s a secret room in the basement of the female body
People used to drink a very specific kind of urine to treat motion sickness
Elf on the Shelf and Krampus are more alike than you think
Listen to this shiver-inducing introduction to the science of ASMR
Did a Swedish king really try to ban coffee with a deadly scientific experiment?
The weirdest things we learned this week: virgin births, composted humans, and naked South Pole scientists
The weirdest things we learned this week: Nazis ate camel poop and pregnancy tests spread a fungal plague
The weirdest things we learned this week: Two sleeps are better than one
The weirdest things we learned this week: Victorian sex drugs and deadly milk injections
Frogs in tiny taffeta shorts paved the way for human in-vitro fertilization
The weirdest things we learned this week: labor-inducing salads and cat-eating coyotes
The weirdest things we learned this week: College students swallowed guppies for sport and chickens wore glasses
The weirdest things we learned this week: the origin of moron, forgotten scurvy cures, and bisexual space stations
The weirdest things we learned this week: Feminist butter sculptures and America’s first favorite pastime
The weirdest thing we learned this week: werewolf tomatoes and overdosing on placebos with Wendy Zukerman
The weirdest things we learned this week: Deadly rainbows, face blindness, and mysterious pink snow
The weirdest things we learned this week: Pooping magic rocks, how we ruined bison, and lies you’ve been told about the common cold
The weirdest things we learned this week: moving corpses, birth control placebos, and the story behind the hymen
The weirdest things we learned this week: 10k steps a day is totally made up and Charmin knows exactly how you poop
The weirdest things we learned this week: Rats with fetishes and America’s first banana
The weirdest things we learned this week: Animal prostitution and Pavlovian pee responses
The weirdest things we learned this week: Blood-thirsty Bambi and 12-foot-tall birds
The weirdest things we learned this week: you can mummify yourself to death and Disney is full of military tech
The weirdest things we learned this week: animals used to stand trial and apples kept doctors from killing you
The weirdest things we learned this week: 40,000 vanishing pigeons and the science of poodle haircuts
The weirdest things we learned this week: starting fires with astronaut farts and dancing yourself to death
The weirdest things we learned this week: counting vampires and nudist founding fathers
The weirdest things we learned this week: hot air balloon riots and the man-eatingest tiger
The weirdest things we learned this week: strange sneezes and how sideshows saved 6,500 babies
The weirdest things we learned this week: deadly molasses and the best way to battle cattle
The weirdest things we learned this week: ladies dueling topless and pseudopenis birth canals
The weirdest things we learned this week: the sweetest-smelling butts, flaming birds, and 40 barrels of coke
The weirdest things we learned this week: killer surgeons and mysterious floating feet
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The spookiest things we learned this week
The weirdest things we learned this week: glowing Civil War soldiers and historic font battles
The weirdest things we learned this week: birthing rabbits, gruesome taxidermy, and the Parthenon’s best-kept secret
The weirdest things we learned this week: eating your own twin, embalmed milk, and levitating frogs
The weirdest things we learned this week: Sheep on meth, hopping space robots, and the economy of “Frozen”
The weirdest things we learned this week: holes in people (and cows), illegal cheese, and the world’s worst dairy disaster
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